2. There are many different
meanings of the words
Order and Disorder and
how they can be
interpreted in Art.
3. Today we will:
THINK about what the different meanings of the word
LOOK at many starting points for this question
DISCOVER artists and designers who could inspire us
on this topic
SHARE ideas with each other
6. There are 6 main starting points.
PEOPLE
PLACES
NATURAL WORLD
OBJECTS
ACTIVITIES
IMAGINATION
7. Contextual references
The artists on the next few pages are
suggestions to help you think about
possible ideas. You may already have
ideas of your own.
Keep an open mind at this point...
There is also a Beaumont Pinterest
Album of Artists and ideas to support
you with your project
9. Popular and
influential street
artist and graphic
designer Fairey’s
work has had a
brute cultural
impact on
contemporary
society. His work
combines
elements of
graffiti and
advertising and is
often politically-
charged.
Shepard Fairey
10. Picasso created this piece in response to the bombing of Guernica, a
country village in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Guernica shows the
tragedies of war and it’s effect on innocent people.
The painting helped bring the world’s attention to the Spanish Civil War and
was displayed around the world as a symbol of peace.
‘Guernice’ 1937
Pablo Picasso
22. Anselm Kiefer
Kiefer is a German sculptor and painter
who explores the themes of depression and
the effects of Nazi rule. He often
incorporates natural materials in his work
such as straw, ash, clay and lead.
23. Walter Martin & Paloma
Muñoz
Snow globes are designed to be
turned upside down. Martin and
Muñoz, though, really turned them
upside down. Where traditional
snow globes are intended to evoke a
pleasant memory, the snow globes of
Martin and Muñoz seem to portend
an anxious future event.
These orbs seem to anticipate
terrible events that might happen, or
might be happening right now to
somebody else.
Where traditional snow globes
depict cheerful scenes, Martin and
Muñoz give us eerie scenes, scenes
rife with anxiety and uncertainty,
scenes that reside in the darker parts
of the human psyche.
24. Rotella was an Italian
artist and poet, best
known for his works of
decollage and
psychogeographics, made
from torn advertising
posters
Mimmo Rotella
26. “Map of my Day” 1995
‘Map’ combines a kind of
representation, that is, a map of the
United States, with many issues more
common to abstract painting. Johns
combines colour, lines, and readable
gestures (brushstrokes), as well as
letting paint speak for itself on flat
canvas surfaces.
‘Map’ 1961 Oil on canvas
Jasper Johns Sarah Fanelli
28. This is a
contemporary
installation and
sculpture. The artist
uses familiar objects
in ways that become
strange and
unsettling.
The wardrobe and
the clothing inside
were filled with
concrete so they
became sealed up
and unable to be
used.
The space between
two buildings was
filled with chairs,
with a startling
effect.
Doris Salcedo
30. Hiroshige was a Japanese painter and printmaker who was known
especially for his landscape prints. He often explores the force of nature in
his Art.
Ando Hiroshige
31. Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo
is a
Colombian
born Sculptor
who addresses
the question of
forgetting and
memory in her
installation
artwork.
37. Natalie Ratcliffe
Natalie Ratcliffe is a Surface
Pattern Designer and Printmaker
Her design work combines
traditional printmaking
techniques with contemporary
practices
She takes inspiration from nature,
particularly the springtime
42. ‘My work
explores how
meaning, value,
and
associations are
placed upon
things in the
material realm.
I am interested
in how
seemingly
worthless
objects have the
potential for
whimsy and
how the
‘inanimate’
mundane can
reveal poetic
and narrative
possibilities’
Janice Wu
49. Woodrow is an English sculptor. In
1980 he first devised his characteristic
method of making sculpture, forming
a new object or objects from the skin of
found domestic appliances.
Woodrow worked in such a way as to
leave evident the original identities of
the constituent items as well as the
mode of transformation.
Bill Woodrow
50. Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker creates large-scale
installations to transform common
objects and investigate the nature of
matter.
54. “I’ve spent the last 25 years of
my photographic career
investigating movement and its
expressive potential. My
inspiration has always been
photography’s ability to stop
time and reveal what the naked
eye cannot see. My interest in
photography is not to capture an
image I see or even have in my
mind, but to explore the
potential of moments
Lois Greenfield
http://www.loisgreenfield.com/
galleries/index.html
55. Jackson Pollock
Pollock was an American painter, the
chief pioneer of Abstract
Expressionism.
He created enormous drip paintings.
He painted in a tool shed where he
could lay his canvas on the floor, and
drip and splatter paint across it
without worrying about ruining the
walls or floor.
Rather than paint a landscape or a
portrait, Pollock wanted to paint
action. When you look at one of his
drip paintings, your eye wanders
across the entire canvas in constant
motion.
57. Yukinori Yanagi's work explores
themes relating to his position
as a Japanese artist living and
working in an international
context, as well as broader
issues about identity within
social or national constructs.
Yukinori Yanagi
58. Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard
Muybridge was an
English
photographer
important for his
pioneering work in
photographic
studies of motion
and in motion –
picture projection.
59. Wassily Kandinsky
Kandinsky used colour in a highly
theoretical way associating tone
with timbre (the sound's
character), hue with pitch, and
saturation with the volume of
sound. He even claimed that when
he saw colour he heard music.
60. Roy Lichtenstein
Beginning in 1962 Lichtenstein borrowed
images of explosions from popular war
comics for use in his paintings. The subject
embodies the revolutionary nature of Pop Art
and suggests the very real threat of
annihilation by nuclear explosion that was
prevalent at that time (the Cuban Missile
Crisis occurred in 1962). But Lichtenstein was
also interested in the way dynamic events like
explosions were depicted in the stylised
format of comic book illustration.
64. Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson
is an American
photographer who
is best known for
elaborately staged
scenes of American
homes and
neighborhoods
65. Jessica Tremp
'When I was little I used to dream about
being a dancer or that I could fly and that I
would learn to speak the language of the
animals in the forest or that of the most
dramatic actor. With the click of a finger
I’ve found a way to make these things
come true'
66. Rene Magritte was part of the
Surrealist art movement.
Rene Magritte
